Spotify tests video courses to teach everything from music production to excel

Spotify has carved out a business for itself in music streaming, podcast entertainment and audiobooks. Now, in its ongoing efforts to get its 600 million+ users to spend more time and money on its platform, Spotify is spinning up a new line of content: e-learning. Starting with a rollout in the U.K., Spotify is testing … Read more

How to use Copilot Pro AI to generate formulas and analyze data in Excel

dowell/Getty Images At $20 per month, Microsoft’s Copilot Pro integrates with Microsoft 365 to bring its AI-powered abilities to different apps in the suite. People who use Excel can use Copilot Pro to convert data into a table, create formulas, analyze data, sort and filter information, generate charts, and more. Here’s how this approach works. … Read more

Best Excel and data science training bundle deal: 88% off

TL;DR: The Complete Excel, VBA, and Data Science Certification Training Bundle is on sale for £39.34, saving you 88% on list price. Shuddering at the thought of crunching numbers on Excel? You may want to change that. Apparently, data science remains the most appealing job in the 21st century, and if you want to be a … Read more

This Excel course is only $10 through January 7

The Complete Microsoft Excel Course is on sale through Jan. 7.  StackSocial Microsoft Excel is a game-changer for offices and professionals around the world. Whether you’re a novice or an expert, there’s always something more to learn about this phenomenally versatile program. Through Jan. 7, you can gain invaluable training on how to best utilize … Read more

How to merge cells in Excel

Richard Drury via Getty Images Merging cells is an easy way to format your Excel spreadsheets, and you can do it vertically and horizontally.  Also: How to enable markdown in Google Docs For example, a merged cell at the top of a table can work as a header or it can delineate a category. Merging will … Read more

How to create a drop-down list in Excel — quickly and easily

akinbostanci via Getty Images Whether you’re running a business or running a home, keeping things organized is key to success. There are tons of apps and websites to help you stay organized nowadays and, though I’ve tried many, I always come back to old faithful Microsoft Excel.  Also: How to add a drop down list in Google … Read more

Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data

In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal with an Excel feature that was interpreting their names as dates and (un)helpfully reformatting them automatically. Yesterday, a member of the Excel team posted that the company is rolling out an update on Windows and … Read more

Microsoft brings Python to Excel, Cruise reduces fleet following crash, and MrBeast creates controversy

Hey, of us, and welcome to Week in Evaluate (WiR), TechCrunch’s common publication that covers the most important happenings in tech over the previous few days. Haven’t been capable of comply with the information intently? Don’t sweat it. WiR will get you up to the mark. On this version of WiR, we cowl Microsoft bringing … Read more